On April 26, in the framework of the celebration of the international industrial property day, in a panel organized by PRAGMA, we discussed the possibility of temporarily suspending or releasing patents related to COVID-19 vaccines.

Two weeks later, US President Joe Biden proposed the suspension of patents relating to Covid-19. His trade advisor Katherine Tai said:

"This is a global health crisis and the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures to be taken."

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Framework Law on Pledges, on the basis of which the so-called registered pledge was established, has existed since 2004.

As is known, already in the income campaign last year and especially after the publication of various binding consultations prior to it (V3404-19, V3410-19, ...) the Administration presented its criteria on the treatment conferred on the expense for amortization of the income from real estate capital (basically rentals) derived from properties acquired by succession or donation.

The recent order of the National Court of March 23, 2021, has urged a question of constitutionality on Royal Decree-Law 3/2016, whose resolution could affect all or part of its content.

During the first pandemic wave, the Italian government, intervened to guarantee liquidity to businesses and self-employed workers in the form of loans guaranteed -in various ways- by the state.